Printer&#39;s tie-up.



J. S. THOMPSON. PRINTERS TIE-UP.

APPLIUL'TION FILED MAR. 24, 1906. 1 ,O%2,292, Patented Oct. 22, 1912 W Km a I 0 O' MMW 744 a. W

JOHN S. THOMPSON, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

ERINTERS TIE-UP.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed March 2-4, 1906.

Patented Get. 22, 191 2 SerialNo. 307,857.

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Be it known that I, JOHN S. THOMPSON, a citizen of the United States,residing at Chicago, county of Cook, and State of Illinois, haveintented certain new and useful Improvements in Printers Tie-Ups, ofwhich the following is a specification.

My invention relates to what is known in the art as a tie-up for typepages and the like, audits object is to produce a simple device of thekind described which can readily be applied to varying sizes of typeforms or pages withoutneccssitating its removal at any time duringsubsequent handling.

To this end my invention consists of the novel crmstruction, arrangementand combination of parts herein shown and described and moreparticularly pointed outin the claims, it being understood that I do notlimit myself to the precise forms shown.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a plan view of a page of typeinclosed in the tie-up of invention, the whole being locked in anordinary printers chase. Fig. shows in detail the constructionillustrated in Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a perspective view of the same.

It s the common practice after a page or form of type is composed, towind several turns of string around the page or form, to preventmisplacement of the type during subsequent handling, which string mustbe removed before the page can be locked in a chase for printing. Afterbeing printed, string is again employed to tie up the-page until thetype is to be distributed. My invention is intended to eliminate thispractice and provide :1 tie-n which can be left on the type page at all.imes, thus saving time and annoyance.

In the device of my invention, I provide 1 rectangular bars of variousstandard lengths,

their ends so formed that a recess in one bar is adapted to receive aprojection on the end of another, and when placed upon the four sides ofa page or form of type, the

' ends will interlock and inclose said page or type form. When theseinterlocking mentloers are formed shown in Figs. 1, 2 and 3, all thepieces can be formed substantially alike and thus made readilyinterchangeable. In. this constrnctimi the members A B are notched tosubstantially half their depths (G G and a pin F tightly driven into theend of one bar enters loosely a hole f inthe ends of another bar. Eachpiece A or B is formed with a in F in one end. and an enlarged hole f inthe other end. The location of these pins and holes are such as to allowfor clearances e at all abutting points-when the squeeze in looking upthe form is. applied. The ObjGCtOl this construction is to permit aslight displacement of the bars A. B when the type form or page theyinclose is locked tightly in the chase preparatory to printing. Were thejoints stringent, the squeeze in locking up would not bind the typesclosely together.

The bars A, B may be formed of any suitable material and-0f anyconvenient or desirable lengths. For ordinary use, they are provided incertain uniformly varying lengths of quad 'height-. Vvhemdesirable,however, for use in electrotyping forms, the bars .A B are made typehigh and take the place of ordinary 'electrotypers furniture. The pageof type is spaced out tightly within the frame, causing the frame to beextended to its utmost limits, controlled by the amount'of play orleeway provided at four corners of the tie-up. The type or slugs arethus held firmly within the frame. The squeeze in looking up in thechase comprcssesthe page, but ts expansion when it is unlocked h lds thematter firmly within the frame whether it be composed of type orlinotype slugs.

Having described my inventicznwhat I desire to claim and secure byLetters Patent is:

1. A printers tie-up, comprising four interlocking members. each memberhaving both of its ends reduced to form a shoulder, the members beingadapted to overlap at their points of joining, and a vertical projectionat one end and an enlarged opening at the opposite end of each member,whereby the members are adapted to interlock and inclose a type page andyield under pressure.

2. In a printers tieup, identically formed and interchangeable side andend members provided with notches at each end and also providml with ahole in one end and a pin of less diameter in the opposite end.

3. A printers tie-up, comprising four in terlocking members, each memberhaving both of its ends reduced to form a shoulder In Witness whereof Ihave hereunto set the members being adapted to overlap at my hand in thepresence of the two subtheir points of joining, and a projectionatscribing Witnesses.

one end and an enlarged opening at the JOHN-S. THOMPSON. opposite endofeach member, whereby the Witnesses: members are adapted to interlockand in- ALBERT H. M. TINELKIN,

close a type page and yield under pressure. ERIC PETERSON.

